Real men are not caring.

“While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. ‘Did you meet with any of them?’ I ask.

“Bush whips around and stares at me. ‘No, I didn’t meet with any of them,’ he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. ‘I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?’ ‘What was her answer?’ I wonder.

“‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’”

—Tucker Carlson, “Devil May Care,” Talk 106, Sept. 1999, via Digby, “Degenerate Politics,” Hullabaloo, Oct. 5, 2006 (available at http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/degenerate-politics-by-digby-i-think.html).